[Early cancer of the stomach as a gastroenterological problem]

The article analyzed the problem of early gastric cancer; definition, endoscopic and surgical intraoperative diagnosis and kind of surgical treatment, and also results. It's emphasize importance of the diagnosis early gastric cancer. In that treated cases of early gastric cancer prognosis is excellent (85 -- 92%). The result of 6032 endoscopic examinations are: 360 cases of gastric cancer, and 14 was early gastric cancer. Surgical treated was eleven cases, and they are all have been lived. In the article is extensive discussion the problem of histopathological diagnosis and classification. Extensive is described operative proceed for which we think that is best in treated of early gastric cancer.